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	<h1>Introduction to ConsoleZ</h1>
	
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		ConsoleZ is a Windows console window enhancement. It is a fork of <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/console">Console</a> project.
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		Console features include:
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			<li>multiple tabs</li>
			<li>text editor-like text selection</li>
			<li>different background types (solid color, image, fake transparency)</li>
			<li>configurable font</li>
			<li>different window styles</li>
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		ConsoleZ features include:
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			<li>Splitting Tabs into views (horizontally and vertically)</li>
			<li>Grouping views (so input sent to one goes to all of them)</li>
			<li>Windows Vista <b>aero glass</b> theme</li>
			<li>Windows 7 jump list</li>
			<li>Windows 7 wallpaper positions and slideshow</li>
			<li>Windows 8 wallpapers on dual screen</li>
			<li>Zooming with Ctrl-Mouse</li>
			<li>Quake style console animation</li>
			<li>Strict monospace font rendering</li>
			<li>Settable opacity of text background color</li>
			<li>Full screen</li>
			<li>High DPI (per monitor)</li>
			<li>Localization</li>
			<li>Snippets</li>
			<li>and more...</li>
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		<b>NOTE:</b> ConsoleZ is <b><u>NOT</u></b> a shell. Therefore, it does 
		not implement shell features like command-line completion, syntax 
		coloring, command history, etc.
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		ConsoleZ is simply a nice-looking front end for a shell of your choice 
		(cmd.exe, 4NT, bash, etc.) Other command-line utilities can also be
		used as 'shells' by ConsoleZ.
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		ConsoleZ is hosted on <a href="https://github.com/cbucher/console">github</a>.
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